Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Likewise, just before the end of that war, had your President, who was otherwise an outstanding man, said a clear "No" to Stalin's decision to divide the world, perhaps the Cold War, which cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars, need not have happened either...
...computer--can be turned against us andused to our detriment. How much easier it is todaythan it was during the First World War to destroyan entire metropolis in a single air-raid. And howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna and flora inthe space of a few short decades? And how muchmore destructive potential do terrorists have attheir...
...daughter Lena, also a school teacher, was born after Stalin died, in November 1953. Of the celebrations of World War II, she says she has no special feelings of pride. "What I remember most about the war is the movies," she says. "They were dozens of World War II movies, but they were so blatantly propagandistic. All the Nazis were portrayed as idiots, and the Soviets as great heroes. We had a phrase, kino nemetskoe, which is slang for a show so ridiculous you cannot believe it." Of the time after the war she says, "It was stable...
...recalls. "I can't say we always had bread, but we lived. We all had ideals, and we all worked toward some purpose." Now, "the only thing people work for is money," he notes. "Something has been lost." Like most of his era, Evdokimov has little to say of Stalin and the terror. "Maybe some of the parents of my friends were dealt a blow by Stalin," he says. "But it was rude to talk about...
Might have imagined, that is, if he had lived in the age of Stalin. For the year is 1936, and the central figure of Nikita Mikhalkov's marvelous film, which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is an old Bolshevik at terrible risk, Sergei Kotov (played by the director himself). Lost in contentment with his radiant young wife and adorable child, he does not see that, far from protecting him, his stature as a beloved hero of the revolution is precisely what makes him a threat to paranoid tyranny. He knows their visitor, Dimitri, works...